Last night at approximately 2:27 AM CDT (2013 August 28 07:2721 UTC), all 6 NASA allsky cameras in the SouthEast picked up a very bright fireball (peak magnitude ~ -11, 2 magnitudes brighter than the Last Quarter Moon) that MAY have produced meteorites. The cameras were completely saturated, necessitating a manual solution. This may very well be the brightest event our network has observed in 5 years of operation.
Using two stations, we have derived the following crude parameters:

Chelyabinsk Meteorite Had Previous Collision or Near-MissTue, 27 Aug, 2013 09:33 AM PDTThe meteor that starred in a thousand and one tweets as it shot across the Siberian sky last February apparently had a rough history. The Chelyabinsk meteor, estimated to have been 55-65 feet in diameter before breaking up, may have had previous fiery encounters — either colliding into another body in the sol...Continue reading

I am currently attending the Meteoroids conference in Poland. At the
meeting, Prof. Peter Brown has just alerted us to the fact that the Daytime
Craterids (DCR) have unexpectedly shown up in the Canadian Meteor Orbit
Radar (CMOR). You can see the radar detection for yourself at:

If the previous outbursts are anything to go by, the shower might last for
several days and increase in activity. Whether this might produce meteors
at visible wavelengths is essentially unknown, but amateur astronomers atSouthern latitudes are strongly encouraged to keep an eye out forearth-grazing meteors near sunset.

I have put together this animation which shows locations on Earth wheresuch earth-grazers *might* be visible over the next 24 hours:

We were taxing the train on the road and then reviewing what we tax saw a light in the sky. Not hear anything but it seems a UFO or even as a military weapon. This was today at 5pm between Charcas and Mat.
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Ibamos gravando el tren en la carretera y luego revisando lo que gravamos vimos una luz en el cielo. No se escucho nada pero parece un OVNI o hasta como un arma militar. Esto fue hoy a las 5 de la tarde entre Charcas y Mat.

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We recorded this on Wednesday on a walk through the desert near the hill of La Ventana. I see that there is another video on YouTube about the same phenomenon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeZ0xS ...). I'm no expert but I think it's a meteor and must have fallen about. Asking the locals walking around I noticed they did not want to talk about it and they said they had not seen anything but it's hard not to have seen anything. Something weird out there in the desert.
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We leave this collection of videos meteorite that fell in San Luis Potosi on Wednesday August 21, the fact is that as we discussed in a daily occasion meteorites fall in the world and it is not unusual, now we play in San Luis Potosi grasp. ...
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SLP fallen meteor exploded (VIDEO)
Lucia Torres / Pulse
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3:00 SLP
Probably disintegrated on the way, says astronomer.
The meteor was sighted on August 21 between the towns of Charcas and Venado possibly was disintegrating in the atmosphere and was not a final burst, astronomer Roberto Bartali said Marchetti.,,,

Initial Meteor Sighting Report-
25AUG2013 Denise Totah Lubbock Texas 5:00 a.m. 5 maybe 10 seconds west to east right to left I was facing west i thought it was a flash of lightning. I turned to look up and saw this big flash of light and it looked like it had 2 contrails at the end. I thought that maybe a plane had exploded, but there was no sound a little brighter than the moon it looked like 2 trails coming from it after it started disappearing I didn't get a picture, I just know that the flash was bright enough to make me look up to the sky as I thought it was lightning.

Thomas Ashcraft - Heliotown - New Mexico writes,
"Did anyone catch a large fireball on Aug 25 2013 at 0954:50 UT in the
west Texas- eastern New Mexico vicinity? (0354:50 am MDT / 0454:50 am CDT)
I caught a flash behind clouds which might have come from over the
horizon in which case this fireball would have been deeper into north
central Texas.
It should show on space fence radar for Texas observers. It made a 30
second radio reflection at 217 MHz and a two minute reflection on tv
forward scatter frequencies."

Roman PifflCEMeNt – Central European Meteor Network
We have one casual video taken from a car with quite good quality (but fireball is very low over horizon). Maybe it will be usable for velocity determination. I will ask where exactly this video was taken but as i know roughly it was close to Radom in central Poland... — in Radom, Poland.Initial Meteor Sighting Reports-

24AUG2013 Alexandra NOVE ZAMKY, SLOVAKIA21:00 GMT+2:00 to 10 sec N-S (north to south), we were facing south bright white light enlightened the entire sky, then big white "ball" (with white tail) slowly flew through the sky and disappeared. after around three minutes, we heard subdued blast. not so remote blast. not sure if that blast was any connected with meteor. "ball"/meteor was bright maybe as much as moon, sky was widely enlightened as if enlightened by lightning no no photos; other observation - we heard blast 2 or 3 minutes after meteor disappeared

24AUG20113 Boris Nove Zamky, Slovakia 21:00:00 2-3 second strart close ti zenith,explode 30° South, N-S from center red orange to green before explosions moon didn't see any fragments, because of clouds after 2-3 minites, me and my family heard sound of explosion.

24AUG2013 Viktor Sárkozy Nesvady, Slovakia 9pm 7 sec W-E, left to right green color, no sound same as the sun, night was bright as day no fragmentation I've never seen anything like it

24AUG2013 Saleh Livia Stará Kremnička, Slovakia 21:09:00 4 sec Right to left, facing south Bright big burning ball with a long tail Moon Not sure The meteor seemed to be very near, but we have not heard any sound of collision, since we were in a car.

24AUG2013 ERIKA Tvrdosovce, Slovakia 2103 4 S direction Nove Zamky blue-white color, sound N/A brighter than ful moon N/A The sky was cloudy,first it seems like thunders, but very bright, and first the shining came behind the clouds and than we saw how it is coming out from clouds.

More on Internet-Br, Hunor, Hungary, writes, "I read few reports on the internet.
See below:---PHOTOS---http://tuzgomb.blogspot.hu/2013/08/fenyes-tuzgomb.html
The reports come from north-Hungary, locations: Mezokovesd, Szecseny, Tata, Szokolya, Sarisap, Satoraljaujhely, Nyiregyhaza, Tatarszentgyorgy, Miskolc, Vac.
The first few pictures were taken in Slovakia and Poland.
Another local info source and best one I found in the TV news, includes local pictures taken in Hungary: ---PHOTOS---

http://rtlklub.hu/hirek/belfold/video/204453
At the end of report is mentioned the bolid from two years ago and the found pieces"Thank you Br. Hunor!
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Br. Martin, Germany, writes including more reports-Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Name of observer: Marek Jureček
Location: near Zilina
District: Slovakia, Žilina
Circumstances observations:
When you return to the High Tatras I looked out the window car probably south and I saw strong greenish glow of the tail. In the first moment I thought it flares. Then I saw on the internet photo
bolide of observations in the similar time, so I'm almost sure I saw it too. Certainly lighted and earth, because driver thought that someone had flashed the high beam.
source: http://meteor.asu.cas.cz/db/report/disp.phtml?id=14472
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Name of observer: Josef Vitoul, Miloš Jelinek Wed
Location: Nemotice
District: Vyškov
Circumstances observations: When returning from visit famous we roughly middle of the village, when crossing žel.přejezdu tracks Nemotice-Korycany, both suddenly spotted over southern greenish horizon
ft ^ ^ ^ ^ something that about 2/3 of the visible smoke trails visibly about 1 second brightened green flash so that it could be seen clouds in nejbližím brightening the area. As we walked in direction from west to east, we phenomenon on the right hand. We smoke trails could not miss it because Its color and length. A more precise time seconds are not able to determine I could only look for mobile phone,
but it was after 21.hod.between first and second minute.source: http://meteor.asu.cas.cz/db/report/disp.phtml?id=14474Thank you Br.Martin!
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Jodie Reynolds, USA PI, and Dirk Ross, Japan Researcher, have spent the past seven days, X20 hours a day, to get reports and information documented and calculated before sending teams to the field.

Maps of the projected strewnfield and overall observer data completed. An orbit has been calculated for the meteoroid/s. Maps are available for legitimate Australian Researchers upon request and verification.

A team of four has visited the area to search. Congrats MeteorRats! Thanks!

Second team arrived today for search of a different portion of the projection. - no report yet.

In all, three videos of the event have been recovered and several key witnesses came forward with sonics data and sighting information. Thank you all!

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